Top AEW star suggests retirement plans for Seth Rollins and MJF.
Currently managing The Hurt Syndicate on AEW, MVP has successfully transitioned himself into one of the best managers in the industry. Despite occasionally wrestling, the former United States Champion is widely known for his managerial stints with The Hurt Business, and now The Hurt Syndicate.
Over the years, several professional wrestlers have successfully evolved into managers, and MVP believes former AEW and WWE World Champions, Seth Rollins and MJF could also successfully explore that career path upon their in-ring retirement.
Speaking to Donnie DaSilva and Jimmy Korderas on Huge Pop!, he shared,
There are lots of guys that are wrestlers, who have the gift of gab, who are really good at talking. If they chose to transition into the position of a manager, I think there are several guys who could do it, they’re just still wrestling. Maybe a lot of guys don’t want to necessarily step aside into that role. They want to continue to wrestle. With IMPACT, and Bobby, when the opportunity came, ‘What if we put the title on him and you step aside,’ I saw the dynamic and how well it could work.
I didn’t have an ego in the situation, and this is an ego-driven business. For a lot of guys, maybe it’s hard to step out of the limelight and transfer that to someone else. There are lots of guys, I think, that at some point in their career, if they wanted to, could do it. I just don’t know if they are at that point where they are ready to do it, or a lot of guys, by the time they want to make that transition from wrestler to manager, maybe they’re just done with the business at that point.
“You couldn’t imagine a 65-year-old Stone Cold being a mouthpiece for somebody. It doesn’t fit. This probably falls into the category of ‘made so much money you couldn’t do it,’ but somebody like Seth Rollins could do it. He’s a guy who could really get somebody over and be a manager later in his career if he wanted to do it.
A guy like MJF, later in his career, he’d be magnificent at it if he got to a point where he said, ‘I’m ready to transition from being a wrestler to a mouthpiece to get someone else over.’ His career is in its infancy. That’s something you couldn’t even talk about for another 20-25 years. There are lots of guys that could do it, but there are a number of factors the preclude them from doing it.”
H/t Fightful
Successfully guiding his faction to the limelight, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin are the current AEW Tag Team Champions.
Both Rollins and MJF possess impeccable mic skills and charisma, two vital traits needed for a managerial career. While MJF has not opened up about his retirement plans, Rollins had previously shed some light on it.
Seth Rollins Opens Up On Long-Term WWE Plans
At 38 years old, Seth Rollins has now opened up on his long-term future. Addressing his plans after wrestling with Bloomberg, he said,
“I mean, it’s still a ways off obviously. I mean, I’m closer to the end of my career than beginning but, the end ain’t here yet so I’m kind of in my prime right now. I’m 38 years old. My mental and my physical are kind of locked in right now where my physical hasn’t declined too much and my mental side is really on the rise as I’m starting to see the industry from a different angle so, that part I’m really focused on.
I think we’re in the early stages of conversations about what it might look like for me in the future in an executive or in a creative role or whatever that may be. But, again, that’s in its infancy. That’s like a, ‘Hey, maybe what would you think down the road?’ So, right now, I’m focused on what I’m doing in the ring and helping out there as best I can.”
“I think my long-term future is probably still in the industry, in WWE, in some capacity backstage. I think someone’s gonna have to run that place eventually, you know, after the current regime has decided that they’re done with it so, I like to fancy myself as someone who might be interested in that and so, I wanna learn kind of that side of things and that’s my first love.
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